The Pessimist’s Optimist
Kevin Okoth: Beyond the Postcolony, 10 July 2025
Brutalism
by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran.
Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024,978 1 4780 2558 0 Show More
by Achille Mbembe, translated by Steven Corcoran.
Duke, 181 pp., £19.99, January 2024,
“... doesn’t pay enough attention to the spiritual dimension of human existence. As the theologian Vincent Lloyd put it, Mbembe sees popular religiosity as a site where ‘power relations are navigated or contested.’ Christianity wasn’t just the religion introduced by colonialism and adopted by African elites to discipline their subjects. In the hands of ... ”